What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.